Volume I
The Dictatorship
Sulla and the problem of restoration through force.
Open VolumeThree works. Three approaches. One Republic.
The Library is not a shop window. It is the entrance to the three works that give the Livarva project its structure.
Each volume opens a different path into the same historical question: how did the Roman Republic fail?
Sulla and the problem of restoration through force.
Open VolumeVolume I of the Livarva project follows Gaius Julius Caesar through the final crisis of the Roman Republic. The working volume title on this site is The First Breach; the published Caesar manuscript is known as Portents of Mars. The text below is presented as an excerpt from that Caesar volume.
Open VolumeCato, virtue, liberty and the limits of principle.
Open VolumeWhy these three lives? Why Sulla, Caesar and Cato rather than a conventional chronology?
Read: Why Three Lives?